The ‘Shadows’ Team
The Advisor Training Group is responsible for training Marines who will serve as military advisors to indigenous security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Cubic’s Advisor Training Team, referred to as “Shadows,” supports the U.S. Marine Corps’ Security Cooperation and Education Training Center (SCETC) and the Advisor Training Group at Twenty-Nine Palms, as well as the Advisor Training cells at each of the Marine Expeditionary Forces: Camp Lejeune, Camp Pendleton, and Okinawa, Japan.
Capabilities
- Small unit tactics
- U.S. and foreign weapons
- Convoy operations
- Offensive and defensive driving
- Vehicle maintenance and recovery operations
- Tactical communications
- Tactical Combat Casualty Card (TCCC) and emergency lifesaving medical techniques
- Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) identification and countermeasures
- urban warfare, border patrol, police and other related skill sets
